About Fatal X'ceptions

[Bloo]

I was able to lift this stickied post from our old site, written by Carridon.

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Okay, now that I've finally figured out how to sticky a post, I thought I'd put a message here that allowed new folks visiting for the first time a chance to get an idea of where FX comes from and what we're about.

Fatal Xception(s) was born in beta. Around April or so, beta 3 started and a bunch of us sort of found each other at the Tyrena cantina. Most of us were entertainer types, but there were several who just came to the cantina to have fun and see what sort of mischief we were up to that day. When you spend hours upon hours a day with the same people in the same place (even in a pixelated setting) bonds are going to be formed. I suppose at this point I could say, "Let me tell you a story about a man named Jed..." but since a lot of you (especially anyone new to this site) wouldn't even know who Jed was, I'll skip that and just point out that Jed was responsible for binding us together with our beta PA tags.

Word got out that the end of beta was coming and many of us decided that we didn't want to face the cold, hard galaxy without the companionship of the friends and family we had found in the two months that we were in beta. Email addresses were exhanged. We all decided on a server, a planet and a town. Since we all played on Bria in beta and lived in Tyrena on Corellia, we decided to not mess with perfection. Also, this site was born to keep us all together. There was one last blowout party in our beta PA Hall where there were many, many laughs, some sad goodbyes to people who weren't going to be getting the game, and see you soons to people we would be seeing in a couple of days. And thus it was that beta drew to a close.

The game was released on June 26th and we all rushed out anxious to again spend time with the pixelated family that we had to live without for an entire day or two! Most of us returned with just a few loses of people to other servers. Some of us came back in an entirely different profession than the one used in beta.

Even before the PA Hall was constructed (yay Kaori!) we were a PA in heart even without the tags.

SO WHERE ARE WE NOW?

We are a free spirit PA, free of the bonds of politics and rigorous structure that most PAs are made of. We play to have fun and enjoy ourselves and our time together. Since the game has released, there have been many additions to our little beta family that was the beginning of our PA. We've tried our hardest to surround ourselves with the best people in all of SWG, and I think we've done a pretty good job of it.

So what about rules, you say? The rules are fairly simple: Have a good time and be pleasant to those around you without violating Sony's TOS. We will not tolerate "grief" play.

Fatal Xception(s) is an entertainer based PA but is not entertainer exclusive.

Those of you new to the site, enjoy the message boards and have fun with interacting with some of the best folks that Star Wars Galaxies has to offer!


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-Carridon

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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

[Bloo]

As an addendum to this post ... this is our current recruiting policy.

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Fatal X'ceptions have always had an open door policy. We like to think with our play style, we tend to attract more social players who are mature enough to know how to have fun and make the game fun for others. Because of this, we do not actively recruit. You will never find any of us standing in Coronet, spamming for people to join our guild or city, nor would you find us spamming the Bria forums asking people to join. That only attracts the sort of player we do not want to associate with.

We are not a role-playing guild, but we do have many members who prefer to role-play most of the time while they are in game. We do not expect you to role-play, but we do expect you to respect other people who do. As a guild/city, we are of neutral faction. We have rebels, imperials, and neutrals in the guild and city. If you are heavy into the pvp and the galactic civil war aspect and of this game, you would probably find a better home elsewhere. We do not discriminate against faction and we just ask people to leave their war at the shuttleport when they visit.

The players who will fit well with our guild are those who have the patience to find out how we are as a group, by interacting with our members, and by taking the time to peruse these message boards to see if our PA is the sort of environment they want to associate with.

After you have looked over our message boards and think you'll make a good fit, all we ask is for you to make sure you have a sponsor (meaning a full member in FX who's willing to sponsor you), create an account on these forums, and post an introduction under this section of our forums. Make sure to include your sponsor's name. Once you have posted, it is then your sponsor's duty to make sure you are guild tagged, show you around, and help ya settle in with the guild. Your trial period is over after a month, and your sponsor will then post a poll on the Dressing Rooms forums. Pending no serious objections from our members, you will then be granted access backstage and become a full member yourself. We may also decide to extend your trial period if the majority of the members feel like they haven't gotten to know you well enough.

Primarily, we have set things up this way to avoid a high turnover rate. Meaning, in the past, we've had members guilded who didn't bother to create an account and interact with our community, and only wasted our time guilding them and setting them up with a house in the city, only to have them deguild and leave a month or 2 later. In order to keep the tight familial bond we have established, we feel this is the best way to go about it. While we understand that some people prefer spending their time playing rather than posting, we would like you to at least drop in once in awhile so you can keep yourself caught up on any discussions we may have about the guild or any upcoming events in the works.